Before the Law
Women's Petitions in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bianca Premo (0009-0009-5145-345X, Florida International University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-289 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417511000053 |
| OpenAlex | W1996265643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 51 |
At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the fact that, in 1790, a woman went to a magistrate in Mexico City to request money from her husband while their divorce case was pending. Everything about the lawsuit seems ordinary, even down to the litigant's name, Doña María García. Decades of historical scholarship on gender have familiarized us with women just like her, women who tactically employed the courts of the Spanish empire in the larger 'contest' that made up gender relations in the era. Histories of women veritably brim with female litigants who used the justice system to win small victories in their battles for autonomy from marital obligations or to rein in philandering, shiftless, or abusive lovers
Autonomy · CONTEST · Economic Justice · Empire · Lawsuit · Magistrate · Nothing · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Philosophy
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
Unraveling Abolition
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
Judith and Hannah
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
As If She Were Free
Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
Fractional Freedoms
An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage
Le ofreció dinero para que no lo demandase”. Justicia negociada y género en prácticas de resolución de conflictos por pensión de alimentos. Chile Central, 1788-1840
Trabajo y agencia femenina en Colima a fines del Virreinato
Intimate knowledge and the making of witnesses in Lima’s seventeenth-century divorce court
Customs apart
Beating a dog to death
Manumission on the Land
Alien to my sex
Introduction
Indigenous People and Legal Culture in Spanish America
Entre Graça E Direitos
The Petition as Event
Law and the transformation of Aztec culture, 1500-1700
Justice by Insurance
Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico
Hegemony and the Language of Contention
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Upholding Justice
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Credit, Debt, and Honor in Castile, 1600-1650
Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of ?Experience
Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of “Experience”
Between Prescription and Practice
The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
Justice by Paperwork
Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order
The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
The Historical Anthropology of Text
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca
The Devil and Deviance in Native Criminal Narratives From Early Mexico
Contingency, hegemony, universality
Notaries, Truth, and Consequences
Documents
Hall of Mirrors
The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies
Everyday Forms of State Formation
Agency in the Discursive Condition
The Protector de Indios in Colonial New Mexico, 1659-1821
Voices in court
Innocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs? Spousal Homicides, the Punishment of Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico, 1740s-1820s
Women and crime
How Juan and Leonor Won Their Freedom
The History of Gender in the Historiography of Latin America
The Peasants of the Montes
Along the Archival Grain
Getting into Trouble
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |